Siding shingle



Feb. 23, 1937.

F. P. REYNOLDS SIDING SHINGLE 1 Filed June 25, 1935 I INVENTOR BY ATTORNEY Patented Feb. 23, 1937 UNITED, STATES SIDING SHINGLE Frank P. Reynolds, East Walpole, Mass, assignor to Bird & Son, Inc., East Walpole, Mass, a corporation of Massachusetts Application June 25, 1935, Serial No. 28,275 @Claims. (Cl..20)

This invention relates to an improved and attractive building siding shingle and construction embodying the same, said siding shingle being of the slate-surfaced asphalt type and of the shape 5 as hereinafter described.

Heretofore individual siding shingles have been applied to a building wall so as to give the exposure and general appearance of wooden shingles, and such siding shingles have commonly been of a rectangular shape. The size of such siding shingles has been approximately 12" x 15" applied with a 7" exposure and a 2" headlap, and to cover 100 square feet would require 1'72 of these shingles having a total area of 205 square feet. 15 This invention provides a form of individual siding shingle which gives the same appearance when applied to a wall as the ordinary rectangular large individual siding shingle and covers 100 square feet with but a total area of 165 square feet of the shingles as herein described -thus the invention permits a saving of in the amount of material required to cover a given area and with no loss of material in manufacturing due to cut-outs. The present invention has a further 2 and important advantage in that'the butts of the overlying shingles are given suflicient backing support by the tongues of the underlying shingles so that they are not easily shattered and do not appreciably bend or sink into the unsupported areas, even though said areas are relatively large. In the drawing, which shows the preferred f orm of the invention:

Fig. 1 is a plan view showing how the siding shingles of this invention may be out without waste from a continuous sheet of roofing material;

Fig.- 2 is a. plan view of an individual siding shingle made in accordance with the cutting method illustrated in Fig. 1;

I Fig. 3 illustrates one method of application of the shingles of Fig. 2 in which it is shown how the vertical joint between shingles of the same course may be placed with respect to one of the two tongues projecting from the butt of an underlying shingle, thus permitting a more irregular application and closer simulation .of wooden shingles as ordinarily laid; and

Fig. 4 is an elevation illustrating building conw struction having a wall thereof including individual siding shingles of this invention. 1

Referring to the figures of the drawing in' which like numerals represent like parts,in Fig. 1 there is shown a strip of roofing material generally designated I and along each side edge thereof, as cut therefrom,a series of shingles, as shown, 55 generally designated 2, 2, being identical with one another, each of said'shingles being of the form shown in Fig. 2 and consisting of a generally rectangular butt or base portion 4, with tongues 5 upwardly extending from the upper edge 6 of said base portion 4.. In the preferred form of shingle and method of cutting as shown the aggregate width of the two tongues 5 is one-half of the Width of the base portion 4 and, also, the tongues 5 are dissymmetrically placed along said base portion '4 though, if desired, essentially the 10 same effect may be secured if they are symmetrically arranged.

Fig. 3 above referred to, illustrates the preferred method of laying inwhich the tongues 5 as indicated (see the top portion of Fig. 3) show the 15 double thickness portions where the butts 4 overlie the supporting tongues 5, and the spaces between the tongues show the single thickness por- .tions which overlie the blank spaces between said tongues, thus graphically illustrating the saving o in practice by the use of shingles as described herein and also graphically illustrating the support of the overlying base portion 4, which is an important feature ofthe invention.

In Fig. 4 there is shown a construction laid in accordance with the method of Fig. 3 and in which four partially completed courses of individual shingles 2 are shown. The wall in question is indicated by boards 8 having thereon strips of building paper l0 and flashing l2, together with 0 a corner bead or strip Id. The individual shingles 2 are nailed thereon by means of nails I6 placed just below the line of the edges 6 of the shingles with the shingles laid side by side and edge to edge and with the rectangular tongues 5 extending upwardly and with the edges 6 of the shingles of the second, third and fourth courses (reading from the bottom) applied so that, said edges 6 in each course, respectively, are coincident with the upper edges of the tongues 5 of the shingles of the respective adjacent under1yingcourses, thus establishing the amount of headlap of the shingles of individual courses. In this manner there is provided a definite edge and spacing means tolay to so as to fix the headlap between the shingles of different courses. The shingles then of the building construction of Fig.

4 thus laid in accordance with the method of Fig.

3 are sufficiently supported so that no objectionable hollows appear in the'unsupported: areas of Fig. 3 and the result, therefore, of the tongues 5, so far as appearance is concerned, is the same as if the shingles were of full rectangular shape without cut-outs. In other words, with the shingles of this invention. though the construction therewith involves a relatively large proportion of unsupported area (the inter-tongue spaces of Fig. 3) such unsupported area is so subdivided into areas individually so small as to prevent material hollowing or drooping of the unsupported butt portions of the overlying shingles.

ifthe generally rectangular portion of an individual shingle be 12" across the butt and vertically 8" high and with two tongues each 3" wide and '7 long, theunsupported areas will be approxia corresponding unit of an overlapping portion with each said tongue contacting an area of said overlapping portion substantially equal to the area of said overlapping portion between adjacent underlying tongues and thereby prevent material drooping of the unsupported areas between the directly supported areas.

2. An individual building unit adapted to be.

laid with similar units in overlapping courses with the units in each course lying in closely adjacent relation, said unit having two spaced tongues of For example,-

aovaaee substantial length and at least twice as long as I the width thereof extending upwardly from the base portion thereof, the aggregate width of said tongues being substantially one-half of the width of said base portion, said tongues being adapted to underlie and directly support a portion of an overlapping course of like units with each said tongue contacting an area of said overlapping portion substantially equal to the area between adjacent tongues and thereby prevent material drooping of the unsupported areas between the directly supported areasi 3. In building wall construction, a wall covering comprising overlapping courses of shingle siding units having a waterproofed fabric base and a surfacing of finely divided material adhering thereto and with each unit provided with a plurality of laterally-spaced tongues of substantial width and length extending upwardly from the base portion thereof, the aggregate width of said tongues being substantially one-half of the width of said base portions, the units of each course being laid with said tongues underlying the exposed overlapping base portions or" an overlying course of units so that said. exposed portions are contacted and directly supported substantially throughout their length by said tongues and are 1 contacted and directly supported for approximately half their width by the aggregate width of underlying tongues, thereby preventing material drooping of the unsupported exposed portions of overlapping units.

FRANK P. REYNOLDS. 

